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The Emperor's Winding Sheet
The Emperor's Winding Sheet
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
In this exciting historical adventure, a famished, exhausted, and terrified boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown. Thus Piers Barber, shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki ("lucky find"), becomes an unwilling talisman to the Emp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374421212
ISBN-10: 0374421218
Publication Date: 4/1992
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Sunburst
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A bit dark for a historical novel for kids, but with important scene-painting for the times depicted (fall of Constantinople). Walsh is wonderfully talented (*Grace*) but can turn that talent to bad ends (*Knowledge of Angels*). For a medieval Crusades-oriented book more positive and wholesome, with a godly message and better suited to youngsters, try *A Door in the Wall.*


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